Hook and eye.



J. P. SGHOEPPL.

HOOK AND EYE.

APPLIUATION FILED BEP'I'.19,1906.

926,775, Patented July 6, 1909.

JOSEPH F. SCHOEPPL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

HOOK AND EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1909.

Application filed September 19, 1906. Serial No. 335,246.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn l SenonPrL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Books and Eyes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a 'full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention. such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in hooks and eyes and particularly to such as are designed :for use on garments and especially waist bands.

The object in view is the production of a neat, simple and cheap improved. hook provided with. means for securely retaining the hook temporarily in position prior to its being sewed in position.

\Vith this and further objects in view the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

in the accompanying drawings :--l igure 1 is a plan view of a hook and eye blank in the condition assumed immediately at the conclusion of the stamping out operation. Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation of a hook complete and shown applied to a garment. lfig. 3 is a view in rear elevation of the hook. Fig. l is an edge view of the same. Fi 5 is a plan View of a slightly modified construction of hook. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the eye forming part of my invention, the same being shown secured to a garment. Fig. 7 is an edge view of the eye formingpart of my invention.

In factories where overalls and trousers are made in large quantities it is the common practice to have one man continually occupied positioning the hook on the garment preparatory to the same being sewed in position. It has also been common heretofore to provide hooks having a centrally disposed point, and in some instances the point has been provided with a head. In applying the hook heretofore used the point is thrust into the garment and if no head is provided on the point the hook is liable to be dislodged from its engagement with the garment and lost before the garment is handed to the party whose duty it is to sew the hook fast. \Vhen a head is provided on the point the liability of loss is materially lessened, but I have found by experience that in many instances the book would he accidentally struck on the edge and twisted edgewise in one direction, which serves to loosen one side of the head, and then the hook is accidentally struck on the opposite edge and forced edgewise in the opposite direction, which loosens the opposite side of the head and then the hook falls from the garment. I propose to obviate this difficulty by providing an improved hook having a plurality of penetrating points, each provided with a head, the points being spaced a sullicient distance apart for preventing edgewise twisting of the hook under any ordinary strains. This and other advantages are attained in the structure illustrz'i ted in the accompanying draping in whiclr- 1 indicates the body of the hook, which when in the form of a blank, is struck into the shape illustrated in Fig. l. The intorior of the body 1 is stamped out so as to make the hook light and at the same time to save the material within said body portion. It is to be observed that the material within the body portion is of a size and shape adapting it for emibling the cutting out of an eye therefrom such as indicated at 2. The eye 2 is used in the ordinary way with hooks of the general class of the present invention and is provided at each end with a head 5; As will be observed from Fig. 1 of the drawing, the eye 2 does not touch the blank of the body portion 1 at any point so that there is a certain portion of waste or scrap left between the eye at all points and the body portion 1, so that the interior edge of the body portion 1 may be given a smooth clean cut. The edges of the eye are also clean cut and no bur is produced on either of the elements 1 or 2 as would be the case if any portion of the eye or hook was severed directly from the contiguous edge of the body portion. in cutting the eye 2, I preferably form the same with indentations as 12'l.2 at each end of the eye. The indentations l2]2 are especially adapted for use in sewing the eye in place as the stitches may be brought over and over from one indentation to another as the distance between the same is greatly diminished. The indentation may be of any depth so as to diminish the distance between the same, and between the eyelet or opening 13 formed in the end of the bar or eye 2 for shortening slightly the length of the stitch and consequently giving a neater finish, the outer edge of the stitchesbeing in a parallel line with the bar.

The end of the body portion 1 opposite that forming the hook proper, is formed with an aperture d, which is of the same shape as the head 3 of eye 2 which is cut therefrom, the head being of course of a less size than too aperture e in order to leave a waste between itself and the body 1. it is to be observed that the shouldered portions 5 in the body portion 1, which shouldered portions 55 become the shanks of penetrating points 66, are produced by the formation oi apertures 77 in the body portion 1 outside oi the points 6. It is to be observed that the points 6@ are spaced apart a suiiieient distance for affording considerable resistance to edgewise strains after the points have been iiserted into a garment, the shoulders or shanks 5*5 projecting inwardly or towa d e engaging the cloth for preventing the hook from being removed iroin the cloth after the points have penetrated the same. In order to facilitate penetration of the cloth by the points points are bent slightly 0, the said outwardly as clearly seen in Fig. 4, so as to extend beyond the fiat face of the body portion 1. v

The body portion 1, at the points of the ends of the hook proper S, is formed with outwardly extending shoulders 9-9 and inu ardly extending shoulders i010, and each of said shoulders is preferably perforated for the reception of the securing thread seen at 11 in Fig. 2. A connecting member or a strip 1% is also provided for connecting the rear of points 6.

As seen in Fig. 5 the body portion of the hook indicated as 1 need not necessarily be formed with the shoulders 10, but may be ach other and iorined only with the shoulders 9 9 for the purposes oi attachment. Furthermore the penetrating points seen at 6 may have their shanks extend outwardly as at 5 instead of inwardly as above described. Of course, when the shanks oi the penetrating points are formed as indicated at 5 their con struction has no relation to the shape of the head S of the eye 2, but when the said shanks are constructed as indicated at 5, the shanks are naturally producer from the cutting out of the eye.

While l have described the present improved hook as especially designed for use on waist bands of trousers, i of course, desire it distinctly understood that the said hook may be utilized for other purposes without in any way deviating from the spirit and scope or the present invention.

i claim A garment hook formed in one piece of sheet metal and consisting of a main lat bony portion or shank formed at its rear end with a curved narrow flat strip having at its ends barbs spaced from each other and located in an enlarged opening in the main body portion or shank, side iiat projections ext nding from said curved flat portion and terminating in enlarged heads having spaced holes for the insertion of thread, and a hook consisting of a curved narrow strip projecting from said enlarged heads and bent over and over-lapping the main body portion or shank and extending between the holes in the heads.

In testimony whereof I aihx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH F. SCHOEFPL.

Witnesses JOHN THOMAS SonnN, J. Mourns OREM. 

